'Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross'.The English nursery rhyme "Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross", in its several forms, may refer to one of the crosses destroyed by Puritans in 1600.In April 2005, Princess Anne unveiled a large bronze statue depicting the Fine Lady upon a White Horse of the nursery rhyme.It stands on the corner of West Bar and South Bar, just yards from the present Banbury Cross.